Counselor advisement days begin Monday, will feature new class options
The 2014-2015 Course Description Guide, which will be distributed to students this week.
On Monday, Jan. 13, Guidance Counselors Marybeth Desloge, JoAnn Goehler, Deborah Parker, Sharon Sevier and Katherine Vargas will be coming into students’ language arts classes to inform students about making their 2014-2015 school year schedule.
Counselors will discuss the 2014-2015 course description guide and explain how to register for classes online. Students will receive a practice and official Course Selection form. Once they complete their Course Selection form students must hand it in to their language arts teachers no later than Feb. 4.
Counselors will also explain how students can register for courses online. Students must register online on Infinite Campus starting Jan. 24 at 7 a.m. to Feb. 3 at 4 p.m.
Due to the recent snow days students will receive a list of the credits that they have and need to complete at a later date.
“Following this presentation and after the online registration closes, the counselors will return to Language Arts classes and sit down with every student individually and review their course selections, graduation requirements, and discuss college readiness, and post- secondary planning,” Marybeth Desloge said.
Students have the opportunity to choose the courses they want to take, and the counselors will meet with students individually to make sure that these courses will fulfill students’ credit requirements and prepare them for their post-high school plans.
Desloge said the new courses being offered next year are Graphic Media Communications, Audio Video Communications, Web Design and Communication and the Science Department is adding AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2 with AP Physics 1 replacing Physics.
In addition, some courses have been renamed. Information Technology is now Computer Applications For Business, Multimedia Applications is now Multimedia Communications, Business Management is Entrepreneurship: Running Your Own Business and Business & Personal Law is Business & Personal Law: Knowing Your Rights.
“The goal of the academic advisement process is to assist students in making the best educational plan for them through a structured and systematic planning system for each individual student,” Desloge said.
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